Week 2

This weeks has been great!   The second week is better than the first. The MTC is awesome. I have been learning so much it is crazy!  I love it!  My teachers are the best.  There are amazing people and they are so inspiring!  Spanish is coming along but it is slow!  I can tell that the Lord is helping me so much when I am in my lessons!  We teach 2 lessons a day in all Spanish!  It is so hard but it helps me learn so much!  My brain was about to explode the first few days but I have realize I don't need to know everything right now! I just need to do my best and rely on the Lord to help me.  If I put in the work he will bless me! At the end of last week I was feeling a little overwhelmed because of how much I needed to learn and how inadequate I felt!  I prayed and had an awesome experience. I will tell you more about it in a written letter home!  But yeah I feel so much better and I know that the Lord is watching out for me.  The most important thing that I have learned so far is that the Lord loves me and he wants the best for me.  My Book Of Mormon teacher at BYUI  said one time " The Lords plan or will for you is the best possible outcome for you life"  It seems kind of obvious but it is so important to remember! I am learning to put all my trust in the Lord!  

So my first night in the MTC we had a devotional by the MTC president. Right after we had dinner, my companion and I sat at an empty table and the MTC president, his counselors and their wives sat right next to me. We got to talk to them and it was awesome. 

I can't believe that it has already been 2 weeks!  It feels like I have been here for 3 days!  It is awesome though!  Spanish is coming along and I am trying to only speak Spanish to my companions but it is so hard!  I am have a lot more fun now that I am learning to relax. 

I have seen Haley, Jon and Janelle 3 time already, but they left yesterday at three in the morning!  I loved getting to see them and talk to them for a few minutes.  We took a picture together and it was awesome!  

PDay is for temple laundry, basketball, food, writing and cleaning! It is awesome.  PDay is a nice break but Sunday and Tuesday are even better because of the Devotionals. They are so spiritually uplifting!  Elder Holland came on Sunday for the devotional because his son was the one talking.  He talked for a few minute and gave us some advice!  I can't believe I got to hear from my favorite apostle on my second week!  His son is Matt Holland president of UVU and he talked about the life of Joseph Smith! It was so awesome and really helped strengthen my love for that Man!  I was in the choir for that meeting and we sang Praise to the Man! That is one of my favortie songs and the spirit was so strong!  I guess during the song, one of the cameras zoomed in on my face like they sometimes do at general conferance!  There were 600 people in the choir and they picked me! I had no idea until after when everyone came up to me and told me that I had that close up! hahah  Good thing they didn't zero in on my voice because that would have been pretty terrible!  I was pretty much just mouthing the words becuase I didn't want to mess up the choir with by terrible voice!  But I guess it was pretty cool that Elder Jeffery R Holland got to see a close up of me singing Praise to the Man!  

Life in the MTC is great!  I keep seeing more and more people that I knew from BYUI on main campus and on west campus!  I have so much fun with my district!  It is awesome!  Sometimes we just can stop laughing and it is bad! The teacher makes fun of us when we say crazy things in Spanish!  Janelle was telling me how she was so counting down the minutes until her classes got over because she knew she was leaving that night!  I'm glad that I am not counting down the minutes yet because that would be a long next month that I have  left in here!  I think it is because I still have so much to learn.  I am loving this experience and I am so grateful to have this opportunity to go down to Mexico and serve for 2 years! It is awesome!  This gospel is so true and so awesome! 

I loved all of the Dear Elders I got this week! The candy you got me isn't gone yet!  I am rationing it!.  I am learning to stuff myself at meals so that I can last to the next one!  hahah

Mom-  Please tell Onna that I am so grateful for the donuts!  Those helped so much the first weeek!  She is so thoughtful and kind!  Also tell Lauren and Andrew thank you for the package!  Those chips and cheese dip are my favorite!  Tell Nicole and Grandma thank you for the letters and I will write them as soon as I can.   

 I am so glad I have such good sibblings! Alex, Shelby and Abby are the best ever!     I wish I could see the changes in Abby!   

WOW i have such a great family! I am so lucky!

Life is Good!

Love Elder Quist